NCT03674918

Reliable Hypertension Diagnosis Based on 24 ABPM

How to Reliably Diagnose Arterial Hypertension: Lessons From 24h Blood Pressure Monitoring.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 408 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hasselt University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

24 h blood pressure monitoring can help to define which is the optimal timing and frequency of measurements

Detailed description

Hypertension is a common condition in modern society. As blood pressure fluctuates with time, a single blood pressure measurement is useless to diagnose hypertension. Nevertheless, a questionable not well-defined number of measurements still is often used for this purpose. Diagnosis and therapeutic control of hypertension are therefore suboptimal. This study's objective is to determine the number and timing of measurements needed to give a trustworthy approximation of an individual's average blood pressure. Therefore, 24 h ambulatory blood pressure measurements were retrospectively analyzed.

Conditions

• Arterial Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	24 h ambulatory blood pressure measurements	24 h ambulatory blood pressure measurements : an ambulatory 24 h blood pressure device that automatically measures blood pressure every 15 minutes is given to the patient for 24 h

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-07-01
• Primary completion: 2017-07-01
• Completion: 2017-07-01
• First posted: 2018-09-18
• Last updated: 2018-09-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium